New Digital Titles: Wednesday, January 8

Do you prefer to read books on your Kindle, iPad or other tablet, or even on your smartphone? If so, you should know about OWWL2Go. This service offers a digital library of more than 19,000 ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines, including best-sellers, children’s books, business, and romance. This free service requires only a library card! You can find out more information and directions at the Library’s OWWL2Go digital library page.

Looking for some suggestions for good digital books to read? Here are a few that were recently added to the collection:

When We Had Forever

Six months after her husband died in a car crash, Mina Drake is still mired in a haze of grief. Reminders of her years with Michael are everywhere, but beneath her heartache lies an even more painful emotion. It’s a guilty suspicion she can hardly admit—that her marriage was over long before Michael’s accident. More shocking still is the pull Mina feels to tattooed, scarred Grayson, her husband’s brother, who’s nothing at all like the man she married. But as feelings stir to life again, so do secrets, changing everything she thought she knew about her marriage, and about the risks and rewards of loving with no limits.

Love in Translation

Up until a few months ago, Rheo Whitlock had it all. Stability, self-confidence and a safe job as an interpreter for the United Nations. It was the predictable sort of existence she, as a dedicated homebody, had always dreamed of. But ever since an unfortunate “hot mic” moment threw her career into a tailspin, she’s been struggling with fear, anxiety and uncertainty. A calculated escape is in order, and Rheo knows just the place: her grandmother’s secluded hideaway in the breathtaking town of Gilmartin. Except she won’t be alone, thanks to a random twist of fate.

A History of the Big House

At the end of the 19th century, a man is forced to flee his village after a quarrel. Starting over with nothing, the banished, audacious Wakim Nassar will create orange plantations on the outskirts of Beirut and become the head of a large clan, feared and respected. The great house he builds at their center will become a powerful symbol of the Nassars’ glory, admired from afar. But this decadence is short-lived, battered by the First World War, illness, family tragedy, and the shifting regimes that control Lebanon. As circumstances compel Wakim’s descendants, one by one, to leave the house, it falls into ruin.A rich, sweeping tale full of unforgettable characters and anchored in historical fact.